On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries

Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), McMaster Divinity College, is President and Dean, and Professor of New Testament. He has published monographs and essays on the New Testament, Greek language and literature, and hermeneutics, including Verbal Aspect in the Greek of the New Testament (Lang, 1989) and Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory (Eerdmans, 2011).Eckhard J Schnabel, Ph.D. (1983), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, is the Mary E. Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies. He has published monographs and essays on the New Testament, including Early Christian Mission (InterVarsity Press, 2004) and Der Erste Brief des Paulus an die Korinther (R. Brockhaus, 2006).

• Part I: Commentaries and Exegesis1. Eckhard J. Schnabel – On Commentary Writing2. Stanley E. Porter – Linguistic competence of New Testament commentaries3. Craig L. Blomberg – Genre in Recent New Testament Commentaries4. Douglas J. Moo – Translation in New Testament Commentaries5. Douglas S. Huffman – Historical Competence of New Testament Commentaries6. Craig A. Evans – The Historical Jesus and New Testament CommentariesPart II: Commentaries and the Hermeneutical Task7. Richard S. Hess – The Use of the Old Testament in New Testament Commentaries8. D. A. Carson – The Hermeneutical Competence of New Testament Commentaries9. Daniel I. Block – Who do Commentators say “the Lord” is? The Scandalous Rock of Romans 10:1310. David W. Pao – The Ethical Relevance of New Testament Commentaries: On the Reading of Romans 13:1-711. Robert W. Yarbrough – The Pastoral Relevance of Commentaries12. Walter L. Liefeld – The Preaching Relevance of Commentaries13. Scott M. Manetsch – (Re)constructing the Pastoral Office: Wolfgang Musculus’s Commentaries on 1 & 2 CorinthiansPart III: Commentaries and theology14. Kevin J. Vanhoozer – Theological Commentary and ‘The Voice from Heaven’: Exegesis, Ontology, and the Travail of Biblical Interpretation 15. Daniel J. Treier – Christology and Commentaries: Examining and Enhancing Theological Exegesis16. Linda L. Belleville– Christology, the Pastoral Epistles and CommentariesPart IV: Commentaries on the Gospels, on the Epistles, and on Revelation17. Darrell L. Bock – Commentaries on the Synoptic Gospels: Traditional Issues of Introduction18. Stanley E. Porter – Commentaries on Romans19. Scot McKnight ¬– Commentaries and James20. Lois K. Fuller Dow – Commentaries on RevelationPart V: Commentaries and publishers21. Daniel G. Reid – Commentaries and Commentators from a Publisher’s Perspective

"As much as this collection of essays offer a helpful and useful “state of the union” on the writing of New Testament commentaries, the essays also reveal how commentaries serve as an excellent test case regarding the ongoing diversity within the study of the Christian (and Hebrew?) Bible." – Edward W. Klink III, in: Review of Biblical Literature (2014) [www.bookreviews.org]